This wouldn't get files that have the bits set to prevent conversion to text. See: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/ RAYNER Peter writes: > > The following from my .mailcap file > application/pdf;pdftotext -raw %s - > > Not perfect but I'd see 10 pdf documents a day and get about 8 of > them. I should download a new xpdf package too to see if it gets the > last 20%. It's usually font encodings that seem to break things > ... usually from LATeX files so I just hassle the author for the > original. I think the breakthrough is overstated. > Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list